do you have probably gone through the experience where you get the computer out and the signal barely makes it from the living room to the bedroom. i m on the 12th story of the condominium here where the fbi recently burst through the front door here and accused the homeowner of a despicable crime. what you re going to see here is his wireless signal was being leeched on from way, way back over there in the marina on a boat more than two city blocks away. malcolm riddell is no fool. fluent in chinese. [ speaking in chinese ] a harvard business graduate who can now say he was a spy with the cia. i heard a pounding on the door. reporter: who was now being accused by a dozen armed fbi agents standing in his living room. of child pornography. i said, huh? reporter: the fbi eventually
discovered someone on a boat in the marina a quarter mile from his condo had locked on to the family s wireless signal. it was wide open because malcolm had never bothered to encrypt is with a password. the fbi says 52-year-old mark brown was using that signal to distribute his library of more than 10 million child pornography photographs and the digital fingerprints he left behind michael riddell s. but how could anyone steal a weak wireless signal from so far away? simple parts you can buy in the hardware store, copper tube, washers, a pringles can. a pringles can? reporter: in pittsburgh i rode with an fbi agent, an expert on the cyber crime task force. with that pringles can wired into the laptop. it s not hard to do especially where we are today. we re picking up plenty of open networks. reporter: in 30 minutes 1,524 wireless signals, a quarter of them with no password protection
we re talking about grandiose behavior. you think you re above it all. you re like god. this could easily be mania or hypermania where we have an alteration in someone s brain chemistry and that s causing them to act in a really bizarre way. reporter: he says sheen could have bipolar disorder. then again our expert said it could also be the drugs or both. when we see bee may have been orthat looks like this, it looks like, yes, possibly could be on a methamphetamine and possibly could be a methd-induced psychosis. usually that happens, though, over years and years of using and then you end up with this. you are nothing shy of traitors. your rational egos will be your downfall. mark this war lock s words. defeat is not an option. i m concerned about the guy. if this is what it appears to me this guy is on the road to something really bad happening. i spoke with charlie sheen by phone today to react to the experts in that piece and he told me and i m quoting here the only
and the death of 9-year-old taylor green whose hand she was holding when the shots rang out. in this death penalty case he will answer to all the shooting victims, not just the dead and injured federal employees, and she plans to be in court for it. if christina were here i would take her with me and we would watch and we d hold each other s hand and make each other be brave because it s not often you re in the presence of evil. reporter: in the meantime, loughner, who has pled not guilty, could be in prison awaiting trial for a long, long time. these loughner videos, prosecutors say, along with multiple internet postings show that the defendant may have mental issues and thus should be examined to see if he s competent to stand trial. as for congresswoman giffords herself we re told where she s recovering at houston she may be permitted to actually attend the april 19th launch of the shuttle
now the speculation growing over who might replace charlie sheen on the hit show 2 1/2 men. meanwhile the troubled actor s latest online rantd against executives that fired him is no surprise, raising questions about his mental state. nbc s jeff rossen following this story again from los angeles for us. hey, jeff. hi, richard. charlie sheen did drugs. he partied. he drank. but experts say when they watch his webcast online that he keeps putting up daily there s just something else going on here, perhaps a brain condition, a mental condition, bipolar disorder. today the few questions remain. is sheen back on drugs? and is he say? what occurred yesterday was in fact completely and entirely illegal, unconscionable. and to quote my lawyer, really [ bleep ]. reporter: late tuesday night charlie sheen was back online in sheen s corner, ready to fight against the studio execs that fired him. now that i have your [ bleep ] world sit back and